Winter Village Display

After months of missing the festivities, I’m super excited to be participating in December’s Silhouette Challenge, and even more excited to be part of a fantabulous giveaway with my fellow Silhouette wonder bloggers! So, lots going on in today’s post. I’m sharing my winter village display, and there’s 36 other Silhouette projects to ogle over, and THEN there’s 2 chances to win a Silhouette machine! Ready ready ready?

I’m admittedly a bit slow on my Christmas stuff this year. We just got a tree, but haven’t gotten around to decorating it yet. I made a paper chain, but then decided to go in a different direction with the decor. So this little winter village is the first real bit of Christmas that I’ve put together.

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These 3D mini houses were the first things I bought from the Silhouette store when I first got my machine but I had been scared to try them until I got some basic projects under my belt. After all that anxiety, these houses were time-consuming but otherwise, not too terribly difficult.

I’m just glad I didn’t design them, ok? I mean, whoo, the design is absolutely amazing. The detail on the trees, and the buildings themselves. Definitely worth the buy, especially while on sale.

I opened all of the designs in Silhouette Studio, ungrouped all the different pieces, and fit the ones I wanted onto letter sized white cardstock. Just make sure that pieces belonging to the same structure are cut together – the church has a building, a steeple and a roof. Make sure you try different cut settings because the windows (masses and masses of them!) are incredibly frustrating to weed out if they aren’t cut cleanly.

Still, all worth it! Totally cute, and makes me miss the New England winter. For clarification, by “New England winter”, I don’t mean the snow, the slush, the ice, the numbing cold and the fact that it lasts 6 months. I mean the classy colonials and cape cod cottages with the fresh greens hung for the holidays, candles in the windows, small Americana villages, fairy forest walks with light fluffy snow perched delicately on branches, and enjoying it all from the comfort of your home sitting in front of a roaring wood fire with some hot apple cider from the local orchard. Get what I mean?

Can you tell I haven’t quite adjusted to California yet? Although, I did enjoy the 70 degree weather today, just sayin’.

Want to Check Out More Silhouette Projects?

My Silhouette Challenge buddies and I are all sharing projects holiday projects today, so hop around and enjoy!

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And as awesome as my display is, I’ve saved the best for last. In partnership with Silhouette America, the Silhouette Challenge participants are hosting a mega-huge giveaway for not one…but two winners! The prizes up for grabs?

Pretty sweet, right? We want you to have the chance to get that Silhouette machine that might still be on your wish list.

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This turned out beautifully, ChiWei…but I think the icing on the cake is how well you styled it. Having some up high on the wood blocks plus the added silver trees and pine cones…it just makes it such a romantic Christmas scene. Well done, my dear! Thanks so much for joining in on the December Silhouette Challenge and Giveaway, and adding so much creativity into the mix.

I am seriously in love with these, ChiWei! I just added the village shapes to my Silhouette Wishlist! The designs look great, but I second what Lauren said, your styling just makes them look so perfectly cozy!!

Hello Chiwei, What a beautiful job you did in making and setting up Tea Light Village”. I am the designer behind the project. Thank you for this wonderful blog post about it. I want your readers to know that the files are available from the Silhouette Store but also from my site – 3dcuts.com. (http://www.3dcuts.com/store/) I sell the entire village as a group for only $4.99 on 3dcuts.com. They come in svg, dfx, and pdf format. People with cutting machines other than the Silhouette can use these files on their machine. Silhouette people that have Design Studio can also use these as long as they are comfortable with the svg import. But everyone should know that I have in-depth tutorials on how to assemble all the files here: http://www.3dcuts.com/tutorials/. These are complicated cut files but the machine takes care of that. They are very easy to put together and a great introduction into 3d paper craft. My tutorials are lengthy and full of photos. So come on over and ale a look! Happy crafting everyone.

Hello Chewei, What a beautiful blog and what a gorgeous job you did on my Tea light village. You should know that tea light village is designed by me – Marji Roy of 3dcuts.com. The village has updates – there was an update in 2015 that included the Saltbox and Gambrel roof houses and a rose arbour, and an update in 2106 that included the Gazebo, Dormer House and Meeting hall. The entire set is available at my website in one download for $8.59. That is much cheaper than buying all the individual files through the SIL store. It is available in SVG,PDF, png and dxf formats so folks with many other cutting machines can create it as well. Co here for the files http://3dcuts.com/tea-light-village/tea-light-village-complete-2016 and here for a complete set of tutorials – http://3dcuts.com/tea-light-village-dormer-house. The updates are also available separately.